All posts by simply...woman!

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    WHAT IS UPCYCLING?

    By Cara Smusiak I know a lot of people who are interested in eco-living, and every time I mention upcycling they ask me: “What’s upcycling?” My response: “It’s taking something that you would otherwise throw out and finding a way...

    • Posted June 27, 2014
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    You have one primary reason to be alive: Bliss

    By Crystal Andrus How many times have you wondered: “What is my purpose? Why am I here?” Bliss. Yep! You have one primary reason to be alive and that is to experience bliss. That’s it! I loved...

    • Posted June 27, 2014
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    FOOD PRICES ON THE RISE: 4 TIPS TO SAVE & EAT HEALTHY

    By Carly Harrill It looks like consumers will be coming up against some major sticker shock at their local grocer. Economic projections show that retail food prices could rise as much as 3.5 percent in 2014—the biggest annual...

    • Posted June 27, 2014
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    Life is looking everywhere for you. Get on the radar.

    By Danielle LaPorte Life is looking for you. Cosmic brigades are scanning the horizon to see who is lighting up. They are looking for hungry hearts, unbridled passion, audacity, courage, RADIANCE — glimmers of sincerity and daring....

    • Posted June 27, 2014
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    Journaling as spiritual practice

    By Lori-Lyn Hurley One day I sat down in the hallway of my apartment with a notebook, a pen, and a desperate sort of hope. I was in the process of earning my master’s degree while also...

    • Posted June 27, 2014
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    see it through

    By Tara Mohr When I showed up at my first workshop to get trained as a coach, I was a dried up soul. Honestly. I had just come out of two years of business school, followed by...

    • Posted June 27, 2014
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    How To Save Your Own Life

    By Danielle Orner With the crown of my head on the mat, I watch my toes. I walk my feet, one plastic and one flesh, toward my face. Sweat trickles down my back and my core contracts. Even...

    • Posted June 27, 2014
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    How Rock Climbing Helped Me To Understand Being “Present”

    By Bethann Muise Coombs I love to read. Specifically, I love to read books that I can learn from. If you share my passion for self help books, you are familiar with the terms “being present”.  Being present...

    • Posted June 27, 2014
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    Three foods that can change your life – The Trilogy

    By Donna Schwenk Trilogy is a set of three works of art that are connected, and that can be seen either as a single work or as three individual works. Fermentation is an art form and each...

    • Posted June 27, 2014
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    5 Ways to Lift Your Mood at a Traffic Light

    By Amy Vaughn Every minute of life is a miraculous gift—an amazing, statistically improbable coalescence of cosmic energy into this self-aware experience that is you and me! And many of us spend an awful lot of these stupendously...

    • Posted June 26, 2014
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